FDA/EMA/WHO Collaboration and Cooperation on Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Bioequivalence (BE) and Pharmacovigilance (PV) Inspections
Track
:
Track 11: Innovative Approaches to Ensuring Compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Quality Assurance (QA)
Program Code:
353
Date:
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Time:
1:45 PM to 3:15 PM
EST
Location:
156AB
CHAIR
:
Cynthia Kleppinger, MD (SCHAGY), Senior Medical Officer, Office of Scientific Investigations, CDER, FDA, United States
Senior Medical Officer, Policy and Communication/OSI/OC/FDA. Worked for the Division of Intramural Research/NIAID/NIH as Director, Clinical Safety Office, worked at the Center for the Clinical Trials Network at NIDA/NIH and at the Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications, CBER.
SPEAKER
(S):
Cynthia Kleppinger, MD (SPKAGY), Senior Medical Officer, Office of Scientific Investigations, CDER, FDA, United States
Member of International Policy/DSI/OC/FDA. Worked prior at SAIC for the Division of Intramural Research/NIAID/NIH as Director, Clinical Safety Office, worked at the Center for the Clinical Trials Network at NIDA/NIH and at the Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications, CBER.
Fergus Sweeney, PhD (SPKAGY), Head of Sector, Compliance and Inspection, European Medicines Agency, European Union, United Kingdom
PhD in pharmacology 1986 Joined EMEA in 1999. Coordination of GCP and Pharmacovigilance inspection. Chairman of the GCP Inspectors Working Group and Ad Hoc Pharmacovigilance Inspectors Working Group. Business analyst for the EudraCT database.
Lembit Rago, (SPKSUP), Coordinator for Quality Assurance and Safety for Medicines, World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland
Dr Lembit Rägo was a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Director General of the Estonian State Agency of Medicines until joining WHO Geneva in 1999 as Coordinator of Quality Assurance and Safety of Medicines. He is WHO observer to the ICH Steering Committee, ICH GCG and MedDRA MB.
Description
This session will provide updates about the FDA's international collaborative inspection initiatives with the EMA and cooperative exchanges with the WHO. Included will be discussions of the FDA-EMA GCP initiative, the new BE initiative and information exchange regarding pharmacovigilance.